A colleague is in the position that the hosts upon which he develops his Java code are SuSE Linux based yet the environment to which his code will be deployed and tested is Solaris ... and all installation in that environment must be done from Solaris packages ...
In order to save a fair amount time spent shuffling files around, are there Linux versions of the Solaris SYS-V package creation tools? These would presumably be Open Source versions of pkgproto, pkgmk and pkgtrans ... I had a brief look on Google and didn't find anything that looked all that promising - I thought that grabbing the OpenSolaris tools might work until I realised that OpenSolaris is all IPS based and they wouldn't be comparable ... Failing that I suggested he might be able to convince them to install a Solaris emulation layer on their Linux box, assuming something like that even exists ... In short, the answer is probably 'no' ... or slightly longer 'maybe, but it would take a lot of work' ... either would be fine for me as that's pretty much what I've already told him ... :) Regards, Malcolm -- Malcolm Herbert This brain intentionally mjch at mjch.net left blank
